Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organization's wheels against him, Farley had managed to get 104 votes for his man to 181 for Balch. Farley's side got more votes than Balch did outside of New York City. This was not a bad showing for a man who has done little but shake hands in the back of the hall for the past eight years. Big Jim had been knocked down in an early round, but he could not be counted...
Keeny had tried the wrenching, agonizing struggle to shake the habit once before, and had fled from a Texas cure center after two weeks. This time, with Reporter Larkin's encouragement, the little round-faced Mexican-American boy went to a boxers' training camp and fought himself back into shape. Last week, on the eve of his first comeback fight, the Mirror broke the story all over Page...
...Descent. At this point the crew may shake hands all round, but they still have excitement ahead. They unload the 36 tons of cargo (sections of the satellite station) and park it in space. There's no danger of its falling: it has the same speed as the rocket, and will stay in the orbit indefinitely...
Because it has never shied from an experiment, the Littauer School of Public Administration has become one of the University's more successful graduate schools. In its fifteen years, it has tailored its program to fit the needs of bigger government, tried to produce administrators who would shake some lead out of the feet of bureaucracy. But in the shuffle of change and growth, one of the School's very first experiments, the Littauer Fellowships, has lost much of its size, importance, and original purpose...
...collar and the other end looped securely around the man's wrist so he cannot get away." As for giving a man a bath, Ford says a dog should jump in the tub himself, with all fours, splashing the man as much as possible, then jump out and shake the water off his coat and on to the man. After that, "run around the yard in circles. By the time he has caught you he will be completely dry again...